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Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / March 2006DeCSS aka CSS + HTML to HTML
Is there am Open Source tool available for that? I may need such a tool to create HTML files for eBooks. eBook renderers may not understand CSS at all or at least have not access to the CSS file because it is simply not included in the eBook. > Is there am Open Source tool available for that? > I may need such a tool to create HTML files for eBooks. > eBook renderers may not understand CSS at all or at least have not > access to the CSS file because it is simply not included in the eBook. CSS is an *optional* presentation layer. Take it out (or have a browser ignore it) and you get the browser default rendering of the (hopefully) semantic markup that was used.  SignatureDavid Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/> Home is where the ~/.bashrc is The problem is that the HTML renderer used for ebooks often do not handle CSS or the CSS file is not part of the eBook. I have for example a bible with <span class="Verse">GENESIS 7:10</SPAN> "Verse" is not available (and the renderer does not know the attribute class) so the eBook renders normal text. What i want is DeCSS the HTML so i can create a good-looking eBook. >I have for example a bible with <span class="Verse">GENESIS 7:10</SPAN> >"Verse" is not available (and the renderer does not know the attribute >class) so the eBook renders normal text. > >What i want is DeCSS the HTML so i can create a good-looking eBook. You could try embedding the CSS file in the HTML page, instead of linking to it. SignatureBart. This still does not help. The HTML renderer simply does not support the "class" attribute for most tags. This is a problem of "barely any CSS support in the HTML renderer". > The problem is that the HTML renderer used for ebooks often do not > handle CSS or the CSS file is not part of the eBook. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > What i want is DeCSS the HTML so i can create a good-looking eBook. The best I can think of would be to create a set of scripts to go through and convert every instance of <span class="Verse"> to <strong> and the related </span> to </strong>. A search and replace would not match the </span> to the related <span> and may end up mixing up your assorted styles. If you use Linux, then your default scripting language, mixed with grep would probably do the trick, even to the extent of changing all occurrences within any file within a directory tree. There has got to be something similar in a windows or mac environment, but I am not the one to talk to about those systems. Carolyn SignatureCarolyn Marenger The idea is to use the CSS file and the HTML file to render a HTML file only. I do not know how webbrowsers handle this. Is there a way to get the info from the DOM tree? That is load it into the webbrowser (probably IE) and traverse the tree. |
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